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Thursday Oct 10, 2013

1. Let's start with introducing yourself and giving us an
overview of your current role at Oracle!

Hello all! My name is Gabriel, I am a Hardware Sales Rep
based in Sweden. I joined Oracle in November 2012 after working with hardware
sales for four years at another large American IT company.

When I was offered a job at Oracle during the fall of 2012
there was no hesitation to accept the offer. What made me accept the offer from
Oracle was the possibility of working for a company that has a unique ability
to offer its customers hardware and software solutions spanning from
applications to disk.

My current role at Oracle is to sell Oracle Hardware e.g.
Servers, Storage and Engineered Systems to the entire public sector in Sweden...

Tuesday Oct 01, 2013

We’ve interviewed one of our Inside Sales Reps who have
recently closed a big deal for his life.

We have asked Alexandre to share with us his fabulous story
and also how it feels to close “the biggest deal in my life”.

1. Hi Alexandre! Thank you for taking the time to do this
interview for our blog! Let’s start with telling a few things about yourself.

Hi everybody! My name is Alexandre, I am a Belgian Sales
Representative, living in Malaga and selling HCM in SaaS on the French market.
My background is made of a lot of various experiences.

I have been officer in the army (serving in Kosovo, Croatia,
Bosnia etc), Inside Sales for Business Objects and EMC, Field Sales for SAP and
SuccessFactors. I decided to leave Paris to become back an Inside Sales
Representative for the RED Company in order to be able to have a real family
life and still be able to do what I do best, sell...

Friday Sep 27, 2013

On Thursday 12th September 2013, the Chambers Ireland
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Awards took place in Dublin. These awards
are held annually in partnership with Business in the Community Ireland and in
association with the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government.

The purpose of the CSR awards is "to recognise the work
being carried out by Irish and Multinational companies to improve the lives of
their employees and to enhance the civic environment in which they
operate."

2013 marks the 10th anniversary of these prestigious awards
and saw Oracle Ireland receive nominations in three separate categories...

Monday Sep 02, 2013

Hi my name is Martin and I joined Oracle a little over a year
ago. I have 6 years sales experience with B2B domestic and international
accounts. So when Oracle asked me to join them it was natural evolution path
for me, as I came from hardware and wanted to take try new challenges in
software field.

I am currently working in the Broad market team in Denmark
as field sales, and my role is handling different industries in the Danish
market. My first milestone achievement since I joined Oracle, has been as Team
lead in the sale of the first Sparc SuperCluster in the north region. Where my
intuition, project management- , political- and interpersonal skills and came
in play and developed.

The Broad Market team in the Nordics is a fast moving and
evolving organization within Oracle and handles the majority of clients. It’s
the place to be, if you want to develop your network and skills in a fast way...

Wednesday Aug 07, 2013

HI Ville! Thank
you for accepting to do this interview for the Recruitment team! Let's
start with introducing yourself and giving us an overview of your current role at Oracle!

Hi Everybody! My name is Ville and I’m a 31-year-old Sales Rep from
Finland. I graduated in 2010 after studying 6 years Business and Administration
in the University of Vaasa. In January 2013 I moved to Copenhagen when I was
offered an interesting job and I decided to join Oracle. 6 months later I moved
to Helsinki and joined Oracle Finland where I’m currently working. That’s my
Oracle history in short.

At Oracle I’m working as a Territory Manager covering
Finnish based customers from e.g. Professional Services and Manufacturing
Industries. I’m focused on Core Technology products, especially on the Database
product line...

Friday Jan 18, 2013

Before we talk about the recruitment industry and 2013 trend predictions
it’s important for us to reflect on 2012 and the challenges it
presented. Our global economy has seen a continuing shift in the balance
of activity move away from advanced economies and toward emerging
markets, creating an increasingly complex economic landscape. The
October 2012 edition of the World Economic Outlook suggests ‘bouts of
elevated uncertainty have been one of the defining features of the
sluggish recovery from the global financial crisis’.

We witnessed companies implementing even more sophisticated cost
saving strategies. As a result many technology organisations saw their
customers deferring/cancelling their projects which had no immediate
revenue return or cost saving. This subsequently affects industry
revenue growth, which is intrinsically linked with recruitment...

Tuesday Nov 27, 2012

To see what’s in store at Oracle’s next Open Day which comes to Belfast
this week, I visited the offices with some colleagues to meet the team and get
a feel for what‘s in store on November 29th.

After being warmly greeted by Frances and Francesca, who make sure Front
of House and Facilities run smoothly, we
embarked on a quick tour of the 2 floors Oracle occupies, led by VP Bo, it was
time to seek out some willing volunteers to be interviewed/photographed- what a shy bunch! A bit of coaxing from the
social media team was needed here...

Friday Nov 09, 2012

Wow, 24 hours to go until Cloud Hire 2012 at Oracle! Friday is going to be a great day for many
looking to make a life and career changing move. In case you haven’t heard, Oracle is hosting
Cloud Hire 2012 this Friday, November 9, at the Oracle Conference Center on our
World Wide Headquarters campus in Redwood Shores. This is a one-of-a-kind event
to be sure and we are still registering online!

We are aggressively expanding our Cloud Development and Product
Management organizations to meet to ever-growing demand for Oracle Cloud. And, from this event alone, we are hoping to
hire 25+ Developers, Inbound and Outbound Product Managers, Technical Leaders
and QA Engineers across several Oracle Cloud groups, including... [Read More]

Monday Nov 05, 2012

My name is Giovanni and I lead the practice of OTM (Oracle Transportation Management) consultants in Western Europe.

I
currently have a role open for an OTM Lead Consultant to join my
international team in Germany.
Oracle Transportation Management is the leading TMS application software
in the market, as confirmed by Gartner’s classification as LEADER of
its TMS Magic Quadrant with the highest rating among vendors.

The OTM Consulting practice is a team of OTM functional and technical
specialists located across Europe whose broad objective is to assist
companies in the implementation of their TMS solution based on OTM.
These companies are leading Shippers of various industries and Logistic
Service Providers.

Key requirements for this role are: relevant experience with Supply
Chain or Transportation Management in other consulting organizations or
large enterprises, the drive to learn the leading TMS application
software in today’s market and the interest to join a truly
international team...

Thursday Sep 20, 2012

As we get closer to October, we are working to prepare for our upcoming Pre-Placements Talks at the IIT's across India.We now have confirmation from each IIT on our Pre-Placement Talk dates. For IIT students who are interested in graduate opportunities with Oracle and want to attend our Information Sessions please find the dates we will be visiting your respective colleges below.

IIT

Date

IIT Kanpur

October 5th 2012

IIT Mumbai

October 13th 2012

IIT Delhi

October 14th 2012

IIT Roorkee

October 19th 2012

IIT Guwahati

October 29th 2012

IIT Madras

October 30th 2012

IIT Kharagpur

October 30th 2012

We will make our presentations publicly available online after October 30th, however if you have any questions at all please feel free to email us at campusrelations_in@oracle.com and we will help where we can.

Hi, my name is John McGann and
I am part of the Oracle Direct management team, based in Dublin. Today
I’m writing from the Oracle London City office, right in the heart of the
financial district and up to very recently at the centre of a fantastic Olympic
Games. The Olympics saw individuals and teams from across the globe competing
to decide who is Citius, Altius, Fortius - “Faster, Higher, Stronger"

There are lots of obvious parallels between the competitive world of the
Olympics and the Business environments that many of us operate in, but there
are also some interesting differences – especially in my area of responsibility
within Oracle...

Friday Aug 31, 2012

Why it may be good to be confused: Mary Lo
Verde’s Motivational Discussion at Oracle by Olivia O'Connell

Last week, we were treated to a call with Mary
LoVerde, a renowned Life-Balance and Motivational Speaker. This was one of many
events organized by Oracle Women’s Leadership (OWL). Mary made some major changes to
her life when she decided to free herself of material positions and take each
day as it came. Her life balance strategies have led her from working with NASA
to appearing on Oprah.

Mary’s MO is “cold turkey is
better than dead duck!”, in other words, knowing when to quit. It is a
surprising concept that flies in the face of the “winners don’t quit” notion
and focuses on how we limit our capabilities and satisfaction levels by doing
something that we don’t feel passionately about.

Her
arguments about quitting were based on the conception that ‘“it” is in the way of you getting what
you really want’ and that ‘quitting makes things easier in the long run’. Of course, it is often difficult to quit, and
though we know that things would be better if we did quit certain negative
things in our lives, we are often ashamed to do so... [Read More]

Tuesday Aug 28, 2012

This week,
Headhunt Magazine in Singapore, took the opportunity to publish an
interview with Jan Ackerman who is Vice President for Recruitment for
Asia Pacific here at Oracle. The link to the online interview can be
found here. Below is the interview in full that was published in Headhunt Magazine.

Monday Jul 30, 2012

It was a pleasant morning and my thoughts
were focused on meeting with the graduating batch of students from BITS Hyderabad Campus. Having reached the campus at 10:00 am, I was given a warm welcome
by the Placement Officer and the Student Placement Representatives The students graduating in 2013 were all ready
for the interactive session with HR representatives.

The HR representatives were from companies of diverse
areas such as IT Development, Services Companies, Pharmaceutical, Chemical and
Instrumentation Companies*.

Mr Maria Sundaram from GE Energy, Chief
Guest addressed the students and gave insights into his own career and tips
about what to look out for while applying for the first job out of college.

This was followed by an interactive panel
discussion between the HR representatives from the companies and the students. A number of the panel members gave insights on focus areas before the students came up
with the questions.

Some of the interesting questions that students came
up with include:

What do companies expect from Master’s
students as opposed to undergraduate students?

Would companies hire a passionate employee
or a sincere employee?

Do students applying for OFSS need any
special skills or qualifications to apply?

How important are the HR interviews and
what is assessed during the same?

Student is interested in a certain company,
but other companies are visiting the college before the preferred one, what should he/she
do?

Students from Non IT background want to
apply for IT jobs. What should they do to prepare?

This session went on for 2 hours and it was
lunch time!

It was a great event and it is always good to interact with the students to help them on their journey into their career.

Thursday Jun 21, 2012

For next year's graduating class of computer science and engineering students, the world is their oyster. I believe that in today's day and age the opportunities for graduates are truly endless. Many students have a misconception that Oracle is mainly a Database Company. While we certainly are leaders in the database space, there is so much more that we do. If you look a little bit deeper you will find we have business groups within Oracle creating technical solutions across all areas of the business world. I think that the opportunities available at Oracle can be those 'life changing' roles that students are looking for where they will learn, develop, be challenged and still have the opportunity to be themselves.

What other company provides as many choices for students as Oracle. The range of business and technical solutions we provide is enormous. At Oracle India we hire students across a range of different business groups.

Below is a presentation showing you just some of the different business groups that hire graduates in Oracle India. The theme is 'choices' because we believe with the variety of work we do we provide the choice to allow you to be you.

As you can see, here at Oracle you get the chance to allow 'You to be You'. If Cloud Computing is what you are interested in, great explore opportunities in our Cloud Services Team. Have you always wanted to work as a Systems Engineer, maybe a role in our Systems/Hardware Business is right for you. With Oracle you have the choice to carve out your career in the path you want it to take.

Do you want to find our more, send us your details at campusrelations_in@oracle.com

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